RHEL: What are the performance effects of having TCP Window Scaling disabled?

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Issue

  • On my Linux server I have disabled TCP Window scaling, what will be the effects of this.
'echo "net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0" >> /etc/sysctl.conf'
sysctl -p

Or Temporarily
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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